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Show PAGE EIGB BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JUNE WORLD GLIMPSES ENGLISH PEACE INSURANCE Stanley Baldwin told 10,000 women in London the other day that "the greatest security against war in any part of the world whatever, in Europe, in the East, anywhere, would be the close collaboration of the British Empire with the United States." He also stated that none "would dare to face" these two powers with all their direct and Indirect resources of mon ey, materials and men. HISTORY TOLD IX FLOWERS Individuals have long been advised to "say it in flowers." San Diego will tell tourists its history with a three hundred-acr- e floral and architectural demonstration for the California .Pacific International Exposition. San Diego doings from Spanish settlement days till now and into the days to be will be told In flowers. ( EVEN THE GREAT DO IT Last week we noted that when Ein-- s teen was presented with a medal and started to make a speech of accep- tance, he could only grin. This week the papers tell us that Mme. could not remember her lines in her first motion picture. The light, cameras and great "ado" around her overcame her poise and she went off the set in tears. FARMERS, ON YOUR TOES! For the first time in two years, wo j have imported more goods in a single month than we sold. The difference i of about $6,000,000.00 was mostly due to incoming butter and meat. Something should be done about it! I i PITY THE BOSSES One occasionally reads of bosses closine down their factories or whole since the sale businesses or what-no- t rewards are no longer commensurate with the worries of meeting payrolls, and keeping customers and workers satisfied. We have advocated that every young man and woman should havp nnme sort of trainine trying to make a "laboratory test business" pay before hiring out to work for another. Workers would then be more sympathetic with the problems of management. There is room for considera tion on both sides. And yet, the following figures should still attract applicants to Boss positions. The Security and Exchange Commission reports that of 771 executives listed in the Exchanges, some receive as little as a few dollars a year and one as high as $365,000.00. The average is $31,750.00 per year. Those who have tears to shed may shed them now. Pity the poor bosses. CAREFUL BOSTON! A new squib states that Boston's city bathing beaches will furnish women bathers suits this year without the usual knee length skirts. Do you suppose the ladies down there have all discarded the hoopskirt yet? WOULD IMPORT A KING . It appears that the Duke of Kent, THE married the Grecian princess Marina, is wanted in Greece. The strong monarchist party would crown him king. Some countries want to get rid of such titles and rulers. They must consider Greece as being in the k collecting business. But Great Britain doesn't fare so ill under a king. In fact she thinks so well of the Royal household that she cannot even spare King Georges fourth son to Greece. who nick-nac- WORLD MOVES - - FASTER Problem: If it cost a passenger four hours and 18c to go from Bloom-fielNew Jersey to Newark in June 1831 how long and how much would it take to go from Newark to Bloom-fielnext fourth of July? No, don't look in the back of the book. Here's the answer. Twelve minutes and 5c. In 1831 the passenger traveled by canal. Next fourth of July he could go by subway in the old canal bed. d, d rATHEKS DAY Sunday June 16 GREYCO END-LOC- K Ties Makes the Ideal Gift For Father Individually packed in gift envelope with appropriate greeting card $1.00 Dozens of Other Smart Ties at I T 250to5O Beautiful new assortment just T r rT1 n.r, ainers uay UlIiS tw:icu ioi A GOVERNMENT 1 t BHUUV BANK UNSUITED TO ' U.S. 13, 1935 London' Bridal Weavers Make Silk on Old Looms MOCAILSiffH Few people know that the magnifivelvet mjnlred for royal cent si!k-p;lrobes worn on state occasions Is made of London, and by a in the East-enfew old men and winwn who weave the finest silk in the world cm the orig-InJacqiiard looms set up by their Huguenot forefatlters more than 2o0 s years ago. says a writer In Mapirine. They are the last of London's weavers, survivors of a once flourishing colony of some 30,000 people Inhabiting Bethnal Green and Spltal-fielu- s. Their usual work Is the weaving of silk cloth for expensive neckexties and Jewish praying-shawlported in large numbers to Europe and America. But there are Important occasions, such as the weddings, when the weaver folk of Bethnal Green are roused to unusual activity, and then all other work is set aside. Only these old weav ers can make the exquisite silk vel-f- f 1 vets required, and they still keep as souvenirs remnants of the material made for the coronations' and weddings of Queen Victoria, King Edward VIL and King George V. e d Would Serve Politics Rather Than Mrs. Glen Stanger of Idaho Falls,, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stenquist motor- Business Needs, Says R. S. and Mrs. Waldo Stoddard of Battle ed to Salt Lake Sunday to meet their Creek, Michigan, daughters of Mr. son, David, on his arrival from Los Hecht, Citing Previous and Mrs. David Holmgren attended a Angeles after spending a three weeks shower Monday at Bear River City vacation there. Experiences. given in honor of Veoma Holmgren. Mrs. W. W. Wadsworth and Mrs. QUOTES PRESIDENT JACKSON Major and Mrs. Eugene Santchi of Zina Nelson attended conference at Rhode Island visited at the Salt Lake City Sunday. New Extent and Diversity of This Country home Port, of Mr. and Mrs. David HolmPresents Different Situation From gren Tuesday. Mrs. Santchi is a sisMrs. Zina Nelson attended the temEurope and Mskes Regional ter of Mr. Holmgren. excursion and Cutler reunion at ple Banking Neeetiary. Salt Lake City Thursday. Mrs. Glen Stanger of Idaho Falls WASHINGTON, D. C.- -A refutation and Mrs. Waldo Stoddard of Battle Mrs. Fred Gephart and children, of arguments la favor of a government-owne- Creek, Michigan entertained WednesElaine and Burke, attended the concentral bank system for the day evening at a miscelaneous shower vention at Salt Lake Friday and SatUnited States is presented In a state- in honor of their sister, Mrs. Marvin urday. ment by R. S. President of the Sodderquist of Idaho Falls. Mrs. American Bankers Association, based was formerly Miss Phyllis Miss Vida Sandall and Dean Wirick on exhaustive studies of European cenof this city. The evening Holmgren tral banks. He also points cut the dis- was spent playing bridge and a del- of Ogden, are spending their vacation astrous consequences of previous cen- icious luncheon was served to twelve at the home of Miss Sandall's mother Mrs. Elizabeth Sandall. tral bank experiments in the United guests. States. d Hot-lit- , Sod-derqu- ist "Our present regional Federal Reserve System under private ownership Is infinitely better for this country than would be a government-owneand controlled central bank," Mr. Hecbt says. "If history teaches us any thing, it Is that it is almost certain that a central bank so owned would be run to meet the varying exigencies of the government in power rather than to serve the commercial needs of the d country." Central banking has been tried twice in the United States, but was finally abolished because the credit control which the central banks exercised became objectionable and unpopular, he goes on to say. What Andrew Jackson Said "The continued existence of the Second Bank finally became a bitter political issue and President Jackson succeeded in abolishing it," Mr. Hecht says. "Permit me to quote from his farewell address: 'The Immense capital and peculiar privileges bestowed upon it enabled it to exercise despotic sway over the other banks in every part of the country. From its superior strength it could seriously injure, If not destroy, the business of any of them which If you might incur its resentment. had not conquered, the government would have passed from the hands of the many to the hands of the few; and this organized money power, from its secret conclave, would have dictated the choice of your highest officers. . . The forms of your government might, for a time, have remainod, but its living spirit would have departed from it.' " When the Wilson Administration con sidered banking reform it carefully kept away from vesting central banking powers in a single institution and instead introduced the regional idea by creating twelve reserve banks located In different economic and geographical sections of the country, Mr. Hecht says, a plan that has worked exceedingly well because the separate banks are under the guidance of men chosen on account of their Intimate acquaintance with the problems and needs of their respective territories. He continues: "The great size and diversity of America tends to make a central bank undesirable. The central banks of Europe such as the Banks of England, France and Germany, cover areas not as large as some of our states. A central bank in the United States on the other hand would be called upon to administer the financial policies of an area larger than all of Europe, In which there are quite a number of central banks. ... Wilford Sparks of Carey, Idaho, Mrs. Rebecca Calderwood of Logan the last two weeks at the home spent here relatives visited Sunday. of his daughter, Mrs. Aarl Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Pederson and Alice Crockett left last week to atchildren of Salt Lake City visited Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. tend a business college at Salt Lake. N. B. Mason. Mrs. J. M. Schaffer and daughters Mason, is visiting at and Lilian Morris returned home FriHuntsville at the home of her sister day night from California after havMrs. Louis Wansgard. ing spent 2 weeks there. Dr. Schaffer remained in San Francisco to Bernice Scof ield returned home Sun. attend the medical clinic there. after a 3 weeks vacation at Layton. Dorothy Nelson of Smithfield, spent A large attendance was present at a two week's vacation here visiting Relief Society meeting Tuesday, it was achievement day. Forty ladies with her grandmother, Mrs. Alice came in new dresses, mostly house Burgess. dresses, showing what they had learnMelvin Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. ed from the instructions given regard A. L. Cook, returned home Sunday, etc. the After color, line, pattern ing Fashon Show Mrs. Lund, the county after completing his year's work at agent, demonstrated book binding Yale university, New Haven, Conn. showing how journels etc. can be Mr .and Mrs. A. L. Cook returned nicely bound together at the small cost of 7 cents. After which an at- home Tuesday evening after spending tractive lunch was served during the six weeks vacationing in the east. social hour. They report a very wonderful trip. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Watland enterMrs. Oscar Strand and daughter, tained Wednesday evening in honor Beebe, attended conference at Salt of their grand son, Gene's birthday Lake City Sunday. Covers were laid for anniversary. eight. Miss Mae Fridal attended conferMrs. Gifford Watland entertained ence at Salt Lake City Sunday also the members of her bridge club Frivisited relatives there. day. Mrs. S. B. Watland, Mrs. H. G. Mrs. Rose Kerr and son, Cleon and Waples and Mrs. Lola Winzeler were grand daughter, Caroline, visited at special guests. Prizs were won by Liberty and Ogden over the weekend. Mrs. Winzeler and Betty McClure. A delicious luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cornwall and Mr and Mrs. Einor Stenquist spent Thur. Doyle Stout of Salt Lake City, is at Idaho Falls visiting friends. spending a week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sandall. Mrs. Elizabeth Sandal, Vida Sandal Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sandall and famand Dean Wirick of Ogden spent 4 days of last week at Bryces Canyon ily spent Saturday and Sunday visitand visiting other places of interest. ing relatives at Salt Lake City. Mrs. Glen , Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bennett and Milford Sparks of Carey, Idaho spent Wednesday visiting at the home Mr. and Mrs. L. C .Winters spent the of his sister, Mrs. Aarl Bennett. weekend at Salt Lake City visiting relatives Mr. and Mrs. David O. Stohl and Mrs. Harry Woodward entertained family of Phoenix, Arizona and Jos. N. Stohl of Salt Lake City visited at at a bridge luncheon Thursday afterthe home of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Stohl noon in honor of her daughter, Ellen, and Mrs. Say Rowe of Rexburg, Ida. Tuesday. A delicious luncheon was served to 12 Mrs. J. M. Schaffer left Tuesday to guests. attend the Argyle family reunion at Geneva, Utah. -- HOSPITAL NEWS al Tit-Bit- s, The Rise of Sap in Trees The exact cause of the rise of sap In the stem of trees is one of the problems of vegetable physiology that botanists have not yet been able to solve, says the Washington Star. The upward movement of crude sap toward the leaves Is mainly through the ducts in the woody portion of the stem, while the downward flow of the elaborated sap from the loaves, takes place chiefly through certain vessels in the layer Just under the bark. It must not be supposed thr.t the flow of sap In plants is nnalnsors to the circulation of blood In animals. There is no central organ, like the heart, to regulate its flow, and the water taken up by the roots does not make one continual circuit of the plant body, but is distributed by general diffusion, partly through Into the air through the leaves and partly through the plant body as food, wherever it is needed. WANTED Wffl Buy Clean Cotton RaSs BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER DR. DON C. JAMES OPTOMETRIST Will Be Here Monday, June 17 MAKE APPOEVTMENTS NOW t ROBERT SIMONSEN JEWELER iDarrell's Beauty Salon? Ogden's Most Modern Equipped Give Daughter a Permanent for Graduation s Frank Dalton returned Sunday -- i night after a two week's vacation at Mrs. DalFork. and Provo Spanish Wood of was George Demaids Howell, Subservient to Popular ton visited at the home of her sister. thrown from a horse, receiving severe "Moreover, history has proven that bruises, but when brought to the hosany banking system entirely owned Mr. and Mrs. Don Sheffield enter pital an y picture showed no and dominated by the government usu tained in honor of bones broken. His condition is imevening Tuesday much demonstrates greater ability ally their 9th wedding anniversary. A de- proving. in atdtng expansion of credit than in licious luncheon was served to eight Mrs. Len Mantlo fell from a horse, putting on the brakes at the right time guests. her shoulder. dislocating to prevent undue Inflation by restrainIs This credit and easy contracting ing to understand because In times of depression everyone Is urging the government to make money and credit easy and to encourage expansion. "On the other hand, it always has been and always will be a difficult task tor any government to call a halt in time of apparent prosperity because in the very nature of things the govern- JL $ j Priced 52.00 and X-ra- CALL 607 up. 63 First Security Bank Bldg. OGDEN, UTAH LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXTrXXXITTXXgYYYYYYYYYYYYl AT GEPHARTS Special Sale of Men's Genuine Fur Felt Hats 60 in the lot Values to $3.00 Gephart Stores Co. "Buy for Cash and Pay Less' Phone Your Order to No. 33 CITY DRUG CO. ment would be very sensitive to public to take any action which would tend to curtail business activity. It is such undue susceptibility to popular demands which makes government banking inherently weak. "Our studies show that of all the central banks at present existing there are only four whose stock Is owned by the government The newest central bank Is that of Canada, which opened Its doors only a few months ago after a most exhaustive study had been made of the experience of all nations with the result that the stock of the Bank of Canada Is privately owned." The American Bankers Association. Mr. Hecht says, Is convinced that a cen tral bank would not be In the Interest of the public or the banks. This post tlon, he added, Is "well understood by the President and the leaders In his Ad ministration tor we have been abso lutely frank with them In all of out discussions and have missed no op prtunity for emphasizing that In our opinion no banking system will, in the .mR ruu, be sound If It Is dominated -political r.ttrely by tha i ii 'inlstrations. We should do all we keep our banking mechanism as -- . nnved from partisan politics as criticism and would hesitate i WE CARRY POSTAGE STAMPS 1 Prescriptions Carefully and Accurately Compounded FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE SOAP 12 Bars Mercedes Toilet Soap CHALLENGE ALARM CLOCKS Recommend with eonfi dence lhi marvelous new tonie for "run down people. Now'i the time to get Lack to feeling right again. Regenerate roar Hood. 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